Ambitious Antoinette Taft Seeks Break With Family Tensions
Antoinette Taft, 23, aims to advance her career while clashing with her elder sister Brenda and brother Cliff and their Aunt Meg. She interviews Lawrence Bellamy of the Journal of Commerce, who hints the job may not suit a woman writer. She admires him, describing him as a tall, polished editor. Brenda notes quiet Bruce with Aunt Meg present as Barney Kerr arrives seeking Cliff.
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Antoinette Taft
Brenda
Clif
Bruce
Meg
Lawrence Bellamy
Journal of Commerce
Brenda Rater
Cliff
Barney Kerr
Cli
Tony
Barney
Izaak Walton
Dr. Talbot
Cif
Clifford
Bellamy
Tony Taft
Sally
Grice
Jace Klinker
Ife
Bendy
Journal Rooms
Mr. Bellamy
Meggy
Journal
SallyTl
Terry
Tony Taft joins city room press for society pages
Tony Taft and her brother Cliff visit the City Room of a major newspaper where she begins a trial in society reporting. Editor Charles Greenwood assigns her to clip material for a Thursday page while she dreams of a career in journalism and a life beyond office drudgery.
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Cliff
Tony
Burke
Mr. Greenwood
Miss Taft
Charles Greenwood
Sunday Paper
Associated Press
Clifford
Ducky
Greenwood
Oakland
Florence
Get It All Together For Sunday Page At The Duck Desk
A city editor orders Tony and colleagues to gather material and photos for a Sunday page. Tony frets over a starting desk, a messy environment, and arranging access to a typewriter while MacGrath helps. The scene ends with a tease that the story continues. Also notes Baron von Steuben, a Prussian officer who aided Washington at Valley Forge and was later rewarded with a land grant in western New York.
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Burlingame Club
Tony
Taft
Clifford
MacGrath
Laren
McGrath
Frederick William Augustus Henry Ferdinand
Baron von Steuben
Frederick the Great
America
Continental Congress
Washington
Valley Forge
von Steuben
Congress
Steubenville, WN. Y
Aran Islands and Their Timeless Ways
The Aran group near the Irish coast consists of Inishmore Inisbeer and Inishmaan. They wear homespun clothing and pampooties made from cowhide. Visitors in Bond Street fashion amuse the locals. Whitewashed cottages peat fires and fairy tales fill the scene. The land is bleak with poor soil but abundant fish and a peaceful pace away from modern life.
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Aran
Inishmore
Inisbeer
Inishmaan
Bond Street
Pigs Embrace Shower Bath for Sow and Litter
Brown explains pigs value cleanliness and have a shower bath for a sow and her six piglets. He notes the animals enjoy the cleansing process and keep themselves neat, reflecting a humorous yet practical farm habit.
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Brown
Aleek
Syrup Pepsin Promoted For Gentle Constipation Relief
An old health ad recommends gradual dosing for constipation relief and promotes Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a popular liquid laxative. It states senna and cascara are non habit forming, suitable for children, and urges taking regulated doses until natural regularity returns.
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Himnes
St. Joseph
Mira
Kerr
Angel
Sacramento
The
Brosklyn
Garfield
Dn Feights Pill Co
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